How do you ballance ACCEPTING yourself with REFUSING illness?

We must love our selves our the good points as well as the 'bad'. You can't truly be refusing your illness if you are doing something to help your illness. I have MS, I am doing everything I can to make sure am doing right by helping slowying down what may happen. But I tell myself daily that today is going to be a great day, that I am fine and that my MS is 'dead', quite, I have to keep it as part of who I am but its a small tiny part of who I am. I am a female, I am 25, I am a daughter, a sister, a girlfriend, a friend, a writer, a lover of books, a lover of movies, and a day-dreamer to name a few somewere down in the hundereds is a person with MS, but it still makes up the whole of who I am, and I love myself just as I am.